Won the Miss Crawford County (Pennsylvania) beauty pageant and was also queen of her high school's spring festival (1975).
Stone, Sharon Vonne
Sharon Stone was born and raised in Meadville, a small town in Pennsylvania. Her strict father was a factory worker, and her mother was a homemaker. She was the second of four children. At the age of 15, she studied in Saegertown High School, Pennsylv ...  show all 

Won the Miss Crawford County (Pennsylvania) beauty pageant and was also queen of her high school's spring festival (1975).
Stone, Sharon Vonne
Sharon Stone was born and raised in Meadville, a small town in Pennsylvania. Her strict father was a factory worker, and her mother was a homemaker. She was the second of four children. At the age of 15, she studied in Saegertown High School, Pennsylvania, and at that same age, entered Edinboro State University of Pennsylvania, and graduated with a degree in creative writing and fine arts. She was a very smart girl (with an IQ of 154), became a bookworm, and once was told that a suitable job for her (and her brains) was to become a lawyer. However, her first love was still the black-and-white movies, especially those featuring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. So, the 17-year-old Sharon got herself into the Miss Pennsylvania beauty contest and won it. From working part-time as a McDonald's countergirl, she worked her way up to become a successful Ford model, both in TV commercials and print ads. Finally, in 1980, she made her debut in Woody Allen's "The Stardust Memories (1980)" as "pretty girl in train". Her first speaking part, though, was in Wes Craven's horror movie, "Deadly Blessing (1981)". She struggled through many parts in B-movies, notably in "King Solomon's Mines (1985)", and "Action Jackson (1988)". She was also married in 1984 with Michael Greenburg, the producer of "MacGyver," but they divorced two years later. She finally received her big break with Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Total Recall (1990)" and also posed nude for Playboy, a daring move for a 32-year-old actress. But it worked; she accepted a breaktrough role as a sociopath novelist, Catherine Tramell, in in "Basic Instinct (1992)" with Michael Douglas . Her interrogation scene has become a classic in film history, and her performance captivated everyone, from MTV viewers, who honored her with Most Desirable Female and Best Female Performance Awards, to a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. After she got famous, she didn't want to be typecast, so she played a victim in "Sliver (1993)" and in "Intersection (1994)", she was the aloof, estranged wife of Richard Gere. These movies didn't "work," so she got herself again into more aggressive roles , such as "Specialist (1994)", with Sylvester Stallone and "The Quick and the Dead (1995)" with Gene Hackman. But it wasn't until she played a beautiful but drug-crazy wife of Robert De Niro in "The Casino (1995)" that she got far more than just fame and fortune--she also received the acknowledgement of the movie industry for her acting ability. She received her first Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination. She did a couple of films afterwards, teaming up with Isabelle Adjani in "Diabolique (1996)", and as a woman waiting for her death penalty in "Last Dance (1996)". In 1998, she married a newspaper editor, Phil Bronstein. She also received her third Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress that year for "Mighty (1998)", a film that her company, "Chaos", also co-executive produced. The next year, she entered her first comedic role in "The Muse (1999)", which starred and was directed by Albert Brooks , and gave her another Golden Globe nomination. Sharon Stone, a diva who thoroughly enjoys her hard-won stardom, is now a mother of an adorable baby boy, Roan Joseph.
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